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One-Eyed Cat

A Single ShotNed fired the forbidden rifle just once, at a flickering shadow in the autumn moonlight. But someone -- a face, fleetingly seen staring at him from an attic window -- was watching.And when a one-eyed cat turns up at an elderly neighbor's woodshed, Ned is caught in a web of guilt, fear, and shame that he cannot escape -- until another moonlit night, come spring, brings redemption and surprising revelations.

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Review: One-Eyed Cat

... book I've read by Paula Fox, the first was Slave Dancer. She is very good at writing characters. I swear I've met Mrs. Scallop before—she's a close ... Read full review

The pacing is not for everyon - Goodreads

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Grace Wen - April 13, 2015 - Goodreads

... with needless "adventuring", and wasn't afraid to present challenging mental and spiritual situations for younger readers. The pacing is not for everyon ... Read full review

I didn't like the ending very much. - Goodreads

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Sylvia - February 11, 2011 - Goodreads

... A slow moving story with depth, set in the 1930s. I wonder if it's one of those books adults appreciate more than children. I didn't like the ending very much. ... Read full review

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User Review - Grace Wen - Goodreads

I was one of the few children who actually liked reading this book, and having recently revisited the novel, it still holds up. It has a slower, meditative pace with a lot of internal dialogue for the ...Read full review

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User Review - Mckinley - Goodreads

I didn't believe this one. The characters aren't developed enough for the story to make sense. It's a book about too much without much being examined or resolved: remorse and grief, loneliness, chronic illness, bullying, etc. I don't feel it came together.Read full review

About the author (2000)

Paula Fox was born April 22, 1923 in New York City. When she was eight, she moved to a Cuban plantation and stayed for two years. In Cuba, she went to a one-room school with eight other students who ranged in age from six to fourteen. Fox attended nine schools before she was twelve. She spent 3 years at Columbia University but didn't graduate. Fox didn't start writing until she started a job teaching troubled children. Before that she worked in a wide variety of jobs. At sixteen, she was reading books for Warner Brothers, including Spanish novels. She was also a salesgirl, a model, a worker in a rivet-sorting shop, and lastly a lathe operator at the Bethlehem Steel during World War II. She wrote her first adult novel, Poor George, while she was living in Greece with her family followed by Maurice's Room, her first children's book. Fox is best known for her children's books, such as The Slave Dancer, which earned her a Newbery Medal and a Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1984. Her adult novels include The Widows Children, A Servant's Tale, and The God of Nightmares, and News from the World: Stories and Essays.